If you’ve purchased an app in the Mac App Store then it’s easy to update the application. Apple has made it simple to update the app right from within the App Store. Here is how you do it.
Updating an App in the Mac App Store
Step 1 is to click on the Mac App Store Icon. You’ll find it on the bottom of your screen in the dock.
Look to see if you need to update a Mac App
If you have a little red number floating above the icon then you know you have an update that is ready to install!
Step 2 is either select the downward facing arrow called “updates” or click “store” then “updates.”
Click to Update the Mac App Store App
You will then be shown all the applications that have new version available.
Step 3 will have you click the grey “update” button on the right for the app or apps that you want to update.
The article starts out by saying, “Fortunately for business-minded users, Android has many third-party options offering similar collections of fully compatible office apps, optical character readers, scanners and converters, all ready to let you use your phone for something a little more useful than moaning on Twitter all day.”
And then, specifically about OfficeDrop’s Android Scanner App, the article says:
OfficeDrop is another doc scanner and reader, only it comes with its own “web-based document portal” allowing users to access and manage their scanned receipts and docs via desktop as well. Files scanned in via your Android phone’s camera are converted to PDF format, with the app letting you search through, label and organise the results.
Check out the article! Or get the app in the app store by scanning the QR code below.
Android Eclair - yet another dessert named OS by Android
Anand Rajaram, an OfficeDrop co-founder and our chief product officer, just wrote a piece for Techrepublic called “10 Things I Hate About Android.” Of course, not to be totally negative on Android, the subtitle is “and some work arounds that help.”
OfficeDrop has now released a series of mobile apps on different platforms – our iPhone PDF app, iPad App, Android Scanner App, and the PaperPort Anywhere iOS and Android apps. Anand has led the charge on all of these mobile applications. It was a lot of work! And he also has gotten a pretty deep view into the development and marketing side of these different mobile platforms.
Android is now the leading smartphone mobile application, selling more units than RIM or Apple. But it’s still got a long way to go before it’s an app developers paradise. There are some great signs that Google is taking the problems with the platform seriously, such as getting handset makers and carriers to agree to more frequent OS updates. And Google is pouring resources into the operating system as well.
But there are significant issues with Android. Anand goes into his top 10 in this article. This includes things that are nightmares for developers and QA people, like the software and hardware fragmentation, security issues, and the problem of getting found in Google Android marketplace (fyi, here is OfficeDrop’s Android app in the Google Android Marketplace! Now you can find it!)
It feels great when customers write nice things about us! As the marketing person here at OfficeDrop, I work hard with my team to get reporters to notice us. But when actual paying customers take the time out to write positive reviews of OfficeDrop it really shows off the hard work the development team puts into the product!
OfficeDrop Review by William Higgins
William Higgins
William Higgins is an ECM technologist for a major financial institution in Atlanta, GA. So, he knows what he’s talking about when he discusses managing content and cloud based technologies. His post is called “Scanning Documents to the Cloud with OfficeDrop.”
William writes about OfficeDrop on his blog, augusthiggins.net. He says, “I work with Enterprise Content Management (or ECM) systems for a living and have an extensive background in Imaging or Document Capture. But yet, at home I struggle to find a good way to capture important documents and keep them intelligently organized.”
Of course, this is where OfficeDrop enters the picture!
He starts off by showing how he uses ScanDrop to scan to the cloud, “The user interface is styliezed like the newer Microsoft Office applications with the menu ribbon at the top. OfficeDrop makes good use of Folders and Labels…”
The he goes on to explain how to use OfficeDrop’s cloud filing system to organize and quickly find documents, “If foldering and labels weren’t enough, OfficeDrop also creates full-text searchable PDF files of the scanned documents you store in the cloud. This means that even if you don’t spend the time organizing your documents in folders or adding lables, you can still do a “Google”-like fuzzy search of your document contents.”
“I am a big fan of Evernote and use it to store all of my reference material (as explained in the GTD methodology). One of the key requirements to my online storage strategy is converting paper into PDF and getting it into Evernote as simply and quickly as possible.
A while back I found a free software called ScanDrop which did exactly that. I use it to scan paper directly from my Brother multifunction device and then upload it straight into my Evernote [For Google Docs users, it supports that service too] inbox ready for processing. It supports a whole range of scanners.”
Edward also took some screenshots.
We are glad that he appreciates ScanDrop, and wish happy scanning to all of our ScanDrop Scan to Evernote users!
OfficeDrop is very pleased to announce that we have an iPhone app! The new app brings you the power that you would have if you were using your computer’s web browser – but now you can access at any time and anywhere. Best of all, the app turns your iPhone into a multi-page PDF scanner, so you can capture paper documents and convert them into text-searchable PDFs on the go. Create PDFs, search PDFs, view and organise PDFs – all on your iPhone. We know that users of the OfficeDrop Andriod app are really into OfficeDrop on their phone – and we hope that iPhone users will be too!
Scan Paper, Text-Search, Browse, Share Documents and More from your iPhone
With the iPhone app, users can snap a photo of a paper document and scan it directly to the cloud. Once an item is scanned, users can browse the document, apply labels, search text using OfficeDrop’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, share and access documents from anywhere with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet.
OfficeDrop iPhone App Video
Using the App
When you first log in using the iPhone app, you’ll see your OfficeDrop folders. You can browse to specific files just as you would if you were looking for files on your computer’s hard drive. Simply touch the folder and navigate to the document you want.
You can also navigate by labels; simple hit the funnel icon in the top left and select the labels (or folders if you want) and only look at items with those particular labels.
The funnel also allows you to find your favorite or recent documents.
Search
Search is, of course, the best way to find your documents. At the bottom of the app’s screen you’ll see the search button. Touch that to text search within your documents. Since OfficeDrop makes the documents you upload into the system totally text searchable, you know that finding your files is only a quick keyword search away.
Scan from the iPhone
The newest iPhones have pretty decent cameras, which means they can be used as a scanner replacement when you are on the go. Using the OfficeDrop app you can scan multipage PDFs quickly and easily from anywhere.
Push the upload button at the center bottom of the app to start scanning. You can either use images already in your phone’s photo gallery or snap a new photo using the app. If you take a picture with the camera using the app you’ll have the option to crop the image, rotate it, add a second (or third, etc) page. At the time of upload you can select a destination folder and add labels. You can also store the item locally, but it will only get OCR when uploaded. If you are in an area without cell phone coverage the app will store the scan on your phone and upload it when you get back into good reception.
“We’re changing the way people collect and share information on the go,” explained OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni. “By using the iPhone as a powerful scanning device, our users can share documents with teams in seconds, and search all of their items in the cloud, regardless of their location. OfficeDrop is making remote working easier than ever.”
The OfficeDrop iPhone app is free to download, and connects with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet. The free version of OfficeDrop cloud filing system gives users 1 GB of storage, 50 pages of text-searchable scans per month and will produce the top three search results.
This app compliments our Android Scanner app; and iPad users should expect a refresh of the existing iPad app in the near future.
Scan to Gmail and Apple Mail with OfficeDrop’s ScanDrop for Mac
Newest version of ScanDrop for Mac lets users quickly scan and email paper documents, look up addresses, and use Gmail for document storage
It’s time to scan and share if you’re on a Mac! Get your paper attached to emails and out to your contacts ASAP with our newest software. OfficeDrop’s ScanDrop for Macscanner software now lets users scan and send documents using their Gmail and Apple Mail accounts.
ScanDrop Scanner Software for Mac automatically pulls up the user’s Gmail address book or opens Mac desktop email programs with the scanned PDF already attached, making scanning and sharing simple, fast and efficient.
Use Gmail for Document Storage
With over 7593.522222 megabytes [and counting] of free storage according to Google, Gmail is becoming a viable cloud storage alternative. Why not store your scans in Gmail and take advantage of all this storage space?
OfficeDrop simplifies this process by linking the scanner directly to Gmail and giving users access to all of its organizational features. When a user emails a scan to their own Gmail account, they can now add Gmail labels and add an email message and subject line within the ScanDrop app. This allows for better and faster sorting and searching for documents within Gmail.
ScanDrop works with the majority of Mac-compatible scanner models sold within the last year. Visit the OfficeDrop website for a full list of compatible scanners. The software can be installed and connected in minutes. Download ScanDrop for Mac at the Mac App store. OfficeDrop expects to add this functionality to the popular ScanDrop for Windows scanning software later this year.
The team here at OfficeDrop was glued to the live updates on Apple’s new iOS and iCloud… and we got pretty excited.
While some pundits have been claiming that iCloud will kill existing document sync, access, collaboration and sharing startups, we think otherwise. OfficeDrop CEO, Prasad Thammineni, was quoted in Macworld and conveyed our excitement about the new announcement. From the Macworld article:
Prasad Thammineni, OfficeDrop’s CEO, said he saw opportunity. Apple’s new service, he said, isn’t necessarily oriented toward business-sized customers—but it could educate those customers about the advantages of cloud storage and expand his company’s market.
“It’s going to educate consumers to say ‘I want my data to go where I go.’ That will prompt customers and small businesses to say they want to do their data the same way,” Thammineni said. He added: “So for us, we see this as a big positive thing.”
We have reason to be so optimistic about Apple’s iCloud. When Microsoft began their “To the Cloud” campaign in November of 2010, we saw our keyword “cloud” related search traffic double from the previous month. And today, this traffic is up 5x what it was before Microsoft began educating the world about the cloud. (Note that while all search traffic for OfficeDrop has grown in that timeframe, it hasn’t grown anything like cloud related traffic. And there was a very distinct, positive change in the cloud related search traffic growth pre and post Microsoft campaign.)
Apple’s iCloud efforts will help propel cloud usage to the masses (or at least beyond the early adopters.) And since Apple is so laser focused on the consumer, OfficeDrop’s target customer base of small business owners will be left searching for a solution that meets their special needs. According to research that we’ve seen, last year only 11% of small businesses were using cloud based SaaS solutions – up from 8% the year before, but still a tiny percentage. And once you go cloud you are 4x more likely to try another cloud solution. If Apple can pull this off they will be the first baby-step into cloud services that our potential customers need!
Finally, our ScanDrop scanning software app thrives on scanning paper into people’s cloud based accounts, and is really designed for customers who use multiple cloud services. So one more strong cloud offering is quite good for ScanDrop, and will help our Mac ScanDrop scanner software revenue grow.
Despite the supposed oncoming death of the printed newspaper, there is something really thrilling about actually seeing your company’s name in print. Today we are very excited to say that our new Android Paper-To-Go App was in the App Smart section of the New York Times!
OfficeDrop Android App NYTimes
Of course, we are also in the online version – read about OfficeDrop’s Android App in the Times. To see the online version, scroll down to the end of the article.
OfficeDrop launched our 1st Android app last week, and we’ve been really pleased with the response from the press.
May 18, 2011
OfficeDrop: Scan Docs, Turn Them into PDF & Make Searchable (Android)
Using Paper-to-Go you can scan physical documents using your smartphone’s camera and store these documents … other file formats can be uploaded and processed as well. Read OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go Review on makeuseof…
May 16, 2011
Android app OfficeDrop Paper-To-Go turns paper documents into electronic ones.
Just snap a photo with your phone, then sit back while it converts the page into a searchable PDF and uploads it to cloud storage. How crazy-handy is that? Read OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go App on bNET…
May 13, 2011
OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go for Android Scans Your Documents
Paper-to-Go is a document scanner that uses your device’s camera and converts the image into a PDF. The app is directly tied to OfficeDrop’s cloud service, where the PDF documents get processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to make any text in them searchable. Processed documents can be searched from both the app and through the web site at any time. Read OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go App on LifeHacker…
May 12, 2011
Digital Filing Service OfficeDrop Now on Android
OfficeDrop, an application for scanning, accessing and sharing paper and digital files via the cloud has been rolling out onto a variety of platforms. The company has announced that the OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go app for Android is now available, in addition to existing applications for Mac Windows and iPad. Read OfficeDrop Now on Android…
May 12, 2011
OfficeDrop Adds Scanning Documents with Android Devices
OfficeDrop has added mobile scanning with the release of its Android app that turns your mobile device into a scanner. Simply connect the app to your OfficeDrop account, snap a pic of the image, and OfficeDrop stores the documents in its cloud for instant access on the web (25+ files types can be uploaded). You can also use your Android device to search, access, and share previously scanned documents while on the go. Read the OfficeDrop Review…
May 12, 2011
OfficeDrop App Lets Users ScanDocs to the Cloud
If you are an on the go pro that needs to keep track of anything from receipts to business cards a new app is available that will upload whatever you need to track and save to the cloud. Read OfficeDrop’s Paper-to-Go Review…
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OfficeDrop’s Online Cloud Storage and Document Management Blog
OfficeDrop, formerly Pixily, helps small businesses and home offices go paperless and manage their paper and digital documents online. OfficeDrop provides an award-winning online digital filing system & Mac scanner software. In this blog, we’ll discuss cool ways customers are using our service to tame their paper problem and get organized. We hope to share tips and tricks we are learning as we help our clients scan, sync, search and share documents. We’ll also highlight new features in our digital filing system, let you know what the press is saying about us and keep you up to speed with the goings-on at OfficeDrop! Paper. Digital. Anywhere.
